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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.
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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
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They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?
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I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.
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If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
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If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
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All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.
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You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
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Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
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Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
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Because everything worth having hurts.
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.
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Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
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Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.
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Fear will keep you alive indifference won't.
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I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
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I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
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